Besides the cache of 30,000 emails Clinton voluntarily turned over to the State Department in 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has uncovered these previously undisclosed documents to or from Clinton when she served as the U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta was told. Sullivan had denied Judicial Watch’s request to depose the Democratic presidential candidate.
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That puts Clinton on par with Trump who is viewed unfavorably by 60 percent of registered voters, according to CNN.
As soon as on Wednesday, FBI could release the report that was sent to the Justice Department in July with recommendations not to lay charges on Clinton, the CNN broadcaster reported citing multiple local officials.
Clinton and her campaign have said that numerous documents were classified retroactively in order to release them publicly.
State Department lawyers told US District Court Judge Amit P Mehta on Tuesday (30 August) that the emails were not included in the cache of 55,000 pages previously handed over by Clinton.
In a separate development Tuesday, Judicial Watch submitted 25 questions to Clinton about her 2009 decision to rely on a private server in the basement of her NY home rather than a government email account.
State Department lawyers said Tuesday it will need until the end of September to review and redact any classified information from the new emails.
“Today’s disclosure that 30 additional emails about Benghazi were discovered on Hillary Clinton’s private server raises additional questions about the more than 30,000 emails she deleted”, stated Trump’s senior communications advisor Jason Miller.
The hearing was held in one of several FOIA lawsuits brought by Judicial Watch now revolving around the newly uncovered 14,900 emails.
The Clinton campaign, which had expressed concern about selective leaks from the notes, welcomed the release.
Clinton had previously said she only deleted personal emails before she turned over more than 30,000 emails to the State Department in 2014.
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Though he described Clinton’s actions as “extremely careless”, FBI Director James Comey said his agents found no evidence that anyone meant to break the law and said “no reasonable prosecutor” would have brought a criminal case.
